I am responsible for all the computers at our company. Maybe not all of them but I manage the nine hundred plus users computers making sure they are running and when they are old that they are replaced. While I enjoy this there are a few things I can count on from users that always make me scratch my head.
1. How does someone always manage to run over a computer with a car? Every few years I get someone who accidentally run over a computer. This amazes me, I can never figure out from their explanations how this could have happened.
2. We have software which allows us to know what is loaded on the computers. We have to make sure we have licenses for the software we run so we run reports every so often. We always find kids games and illegal copies of software on someone’s computer. I asked a guy why he had Dora the explorer on his computer and he told me he let his kid use his computer when they went on road trips. Perhaps this is related to point one above but get you kid their own computer. We didn’t give this to you for your kid’s entertainment.
3. Whatever the latest gadget or new hardware to come out someone will try to tell me they really need it. We never buy the latest and greatest, work is for the tried and true. If you want the computer with all the neon lights and the processor that will melt the skin off of your legs while in your lap. You better save your pennies. It won’t become a standard in our office until the squirrel running ones we have now are in the landfill.